Daniel Hale Williams
Daniel Hale Williams was born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania January 18,1858. His parents were Daniel Williams Jr. and Sarah Price Williams who had eight children. His father was a barber and was a very religious and proud father of his children. However, he died of tuberculosis in 1867 when Daniel was only nine years old. Therefore, Sarah and her kids moved to Baltimore to live with relatives because they were a poor family. Daniel was forced to take on jobs at n early age. He became an apprentice to a cobbler, a shoemaker, for three years and also a laborer on a lake steamer. He attended Hare's Classical Academy in 1877. After he graduated from there, he and his sister began traveling looking for job opportunities. He and his sister found jobs in Janesville, Wisconsin where they both began working in a barbershop. While working in the barbershop, Daniel met Henry Palmer who was a leading physician and surgeon general in Wisconsin. Although Daniel was only 16 when he met Dr. Palmer, he saw the special qualities that Daniel possessed. Dr. Palmer took him as an apprentice in 1878. Dr. Palmer then helped pay for Daniel to attend the Chicago Medical College, which was affiliated with Northwestern University and was considered on
In 1889, he was appointed to the Illinois State board of Health where he worked with medical standards and hospital rules and regulations. In 1899, he became a professor of clinical surgery at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. He served as a member of the Cook county Hospital, an associate attending surgeon at St. He left there to become an attending staff surgeon at St. In 1885, he became an instructor of anatomy at Chicago's Medical College. He then went on to open his own medical office on the south side of Chicago. This enabled him to run one of the largest gynecological services in the city. Williams founded Provident hospital, which was the first hospital in the nation, which was, ran and operated by blacks. After graduation Daniel took on an internship at mercy Hospital in Chicago. After this medical accomplishment, his friend Judge Walter Q. Williams established it's first surgical clinic. He also organized the hospital in 7 departments: medical, numerical, gynecological, obstetrical, dermatological, genito-urinary, and throat and chest.
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